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psychopath

[ sahy-kuh-path ]

noun

  1. a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.


psychopath

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noun

  1. a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts Also calledsociopath
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

psychopath

  1. A mentally unbalanced person who is inclined toward antisocial and criminal behavior. ( Compare sociopath .)
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Derived Forms

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  • ËŒ±è²õ²â³¦³ó´Çˈ±è²¹³Ù³ó¾±³¦ally, adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of psychopath1

First recorded in 1880–85; psycho- + -path
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In hundreds of posts, Wall described him as manipulative, a psychopath and a sociopathic abuser.

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He said Saadi compensated by "obsessing" over horror films and was fascinated by the mind of a psychopath and had a "growing sense of rage against society for the rejection".

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Its most cancerous component may be acting Ice Director Tom Homan, a gentleman that political analyst Norm Ornstein calls a “psychopath and Nazi.â€

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"Putin is a psychopath who has no borders," he said.

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"There's a subset of people, like 1% of the population, who are psychopaths, who are not worried about the vulnerable, who are worried first and foremost about cementing power and gaining status."

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